Autobiography: general

In the Rust Belt of the 1960s, a blue-collar father works double shifts, chasing elusive dreams: a good nights sleep, eternal life, a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains where he can hunt and fish.

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Too often, the lives and works of authors who called Upstate New York home are overshadowed by the icons of New York City.

No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives.

Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the worldand the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after their author's death.

The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism.

"e;The most original historian of his generation.

Stupid is the new smartbut it wasn't always soPopular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind.

Khalil Maleki (19011969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran.

Jim Neat is an unusual and striking memoir, a coalescing of prose, poetry, found documents and photographs.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company.

Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founder.

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them.

On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself.

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians.

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939.

In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali.

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This stimulating book covers all area of the twelfth century Muslim philosopher's life from his transmission of Aristotelian thought to the Western world, to his conflict with the Ash'arite theologians.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

The story of Islam as never presented beforeKhadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice.

Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho';aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left.

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time.

From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women.

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times ';The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin.

With the warmth and humor weve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.

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There are no winners in war, only losers.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them ';A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.